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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10
SAM JONES TALKS TO THE ROMANS
ABOUT TRUTH, HONESTY, ETC.
Rome Courier. ]

A man can look at truth till he
loves truth likewise man can
think Of the opposite till he becomes
a liar. A thief is gentleman be-
side a liar. 1t is a real tonic to sit
down and hear a man tell a tale
and stick to the truth all through.
Sometimes we run up with a fellow
who don't lie, and 1 feel like asking
him if he don't feel lonesome in this
world.
How truth adOrns the character.
ale sweareth to his own hurt and
changeth not" A man tells one lie
and then tells a hundred to cover
that up.
at is a tangled web we weave,
When we labor to deceive
Some people say they can't get
credit because they are poor; but
that IS a mistake. 1t is not how
much money a fellow has got, but
what sort of a fellow be is. Will
he do to trusti
Mr.. Jones then took up honesty.
The old adage, ian honest man is
the noblest work of God,' was al
most good enough to paste in the
back of your Bible. lie spoke OF
the honesty OF the Hardshells, and
how they could be relied upon in
commercial transactions.
While he was throwing rocks
ar ound among the men about hon
esty, he turned bis attention for a
few moments to the good sisters,
and said some caustic things about
the sale of clothes to colOred PEG.
pie tor more than they are worth,
and then going of and Dragging
about what good trades they are
lie also said some plain words
about the small wages paid the
cooks. Now, said he, some of you
will say, "Mr. Jones, you are throw
ing a dampness over the meeting"
"Well, if l can get you to be hon.
est we can stand the dampness. |
am for the under dog always in the
fight"
We lack downright, upright hon
esty. We are talking about things
now that will make us shout in
heaven.
"Whatsoever things are Just,
think on them" BE just to your
wife. God pity a man who is bet
ter to his cook than bis wife. Some
times we are very UNJUST to our
children. Justice means giving
every man his dues. You may be
unjust to pastor. Ifyou don't
help your pastor in prayer meet
ings, visiting the sick, you treat
him uDjustly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10
A BOY WITH THE HEAD OF A FISH.
THE QUEER FREAK OF NATURE
TO BE SEEN IN THE HELENA
POORHOUSE.

THE QUEER FREAK OF NATURE
TO BE SEEN IN THE HELENA
PooRHoUsE.
HELENA, ARK, May 27.-The
pOorhouse here contains strange
freak of nature. This is a boy be.
tween seven and eight years of
age, a typical negro child, except
ing from his neck up, He was
bora at Old Town, about twenty
miles from Helena. The boy, or
boyfsh, as he is called, has a very
indistinct articulation. He has no
palate. His head is held always
on b is breast, as il 1t was closely
articulated with it, or, in fact,
part of the breast ; it is Oblong,
and his forehead recedes from a
point below the eyes to the crown
of his head. At an early age there
we're scales on his back which very
much resembled the scales on a
buffalo fish. They have, in the
course of time, worn away, leaving
only a whitish mark similar in size
to the scales. His eyes protrude
from their sockets at least a quarter
of an inch, and are perfectly sight
less; he moves them in a way
similar to that Of a fish. 1t is sup
posed by his keeper, that, though
sightless out Of water, by some
dispensation he is able to see dis
tinctly when his eyes are under
the water. When he comes IN the
vicinity of water, or when it rains,
he has peculiar commissions, and
moves his arms as fish does its
fms. There is in the middle Of his
forehead a ridge of the hardness OF
prlstIe, resembling the burrows in
a buffalo fish's head, which appears
very distinctly in the morning, but
as evening advances it disappears,
and when night comes it is gone
entirely, only to return with its
usual distinctness IN the morning.
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Yours truly,
WIN. JOLLIPFE.

a little boy in Detroit did not
want to 90 to Sunday-school. His
mother said "Why, Johnny, don't
you want to hear about Heaven
and the beautiful streets of gold 2"
Johnny thought a moment and
then said. very decidedly; "No! |
dess | don't. If hears bout it l
won't be 'sprised when / 60"
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ST. NICHOLAS
for 1861

Stories by Louisa VI. Alcott and Frank
r. Stockton,-seyeral by each author.
A Short Serial Story by Mrs. Burnett
whose charming Little Lord Fauntleroy
has been a great feature in the past year
of st. Nicholas.
War Stories for Boys and Girls. Gen.
Badeau, chief-ofstafi, biographer, and
confidential friend OF General Grant, and
one Of the ablest and most popular Of
living military writers, will contribute a
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descriptions of single contests or short
campaigns, presenting a sort of literary
picture-gallery Of the grand and heroic
contents in which the parents of many a
boy and girl of to-day took part
The Serial Stories include Juan and
Juanita,i an admirably written story of
Mexican life, by Frances Courtenay Bay
lor, author Of ON Both Sides; also,
Jenny's Boarding House. by James Otis,
a story of life in a great city.
Short Articles, instructive and enter
tanning, will abound. Among these are I;
How a Great Panorama is Made by
lHcO0Ofe Is. DdNlrf WIN pibiu'o HiHHAid-
tions Winning q Commission Naval
Academy, and 'Recollections Of the Ma
val Academy Boring for Or and Among
the Gas wells with number Of striking
pictures: 'Child-Sketches from George
Eliot by Julia Magruder Victor Hugo's
Tales TO his Grandchildren, recounted by
Brander Matthews; Historic Girls, by f..
s. Brooks. Also interesting contributions
from Nora Perry, Harriet Prescott Spoiiord,
joaquin Miller, II. II. Boyesen, Washing
ton GLADDEN.. Alice Wellington Rollins, j..
r. Trowbridge, Lieutenant Frederick
scbwatka, Noah Brooks, Grace DEMO
Litchfeld, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. Mrs.
s. VI. b. Piatt, Mary Mapes nodge, and
many others, etc, etc.
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FARM and HOUSEHOLD.
COWS STANDING IN WATER.

That practical and spicy paper,
HOardS Dairyman, thus reviews
the utterances Of one of our cor
respondents:
A writer in The american Farm
er, Nd, in sounding the praises Of
pasturlng cows, over the method
OF feeding them 10 barn, gives
one reason that is of questionable
value. It is, that the cows can get
a place to stand IN the water, hot
days-usually in the mud.
1t has been demonstrated beyond
cavil, that it lessons Reproduction
Of the COW to have her stand any
considerable part Of the day in
cold water, no matter how hot the
air may be. Are we keeping cows
for fun, for our health, to have
them abuse themselves, or to make
money at feeding and milking
them 2 Besides, the almost lnva'
riable accompaniment OF a COW
standing in a pond-hole or creek,
several hours, is a mud.besmeared
udder, sore teats and mud-tain ted
milk, unless the udders are washed
before milking-which we are 10th
to admit is seldom done by the
general dairy farmer. We have
heard our best dairy farmers say
they would not give nickel for
the best spring that flows, for their
COWS to tread in; and others, that
if they had them they would fence
them so the COWS could not get at
them.
Shade trees and laughing brooks
for cows, are far more poetic than
practical, as a rule. The few have
them in all their beauty and glory;
the mass Of COWS pastured, get IN
the mud.holes and damage them
selves, and their owners.
For shade, a clean airy barn dis
counts either the woods with its
flies, or the scattered shade trees ;
the atmosphere around which
smells of most anything rather
than clover-blossoms or the leaves
on the trees overhead. Comfort
and cash usually go together in
this COW keeping business; so if
more cash comes from the generous
feed and shade and warmth of the
barn, wouldn't it follow there is
more real comfort in them?
In taking this view, one is not
shut up to the practice of soiling
with its hard work to keep suitable
green foods, as was once thought
was the inevitable accompaniment
of SO feeding COWS; for the con.
tents of the silo may be used at
all times when the soiling crops
are not at their best. Indeed,
some use the ensiled food all the
time; and they are those who are
hard to beat.-The american (nd.)
Farmer.
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Interesting Letter About SIlO.
1BRANHAM FARM" !
Va Fab r. 1877. {

BUCHANAN, VA, Feb. D, ~.
A. III. MeCue, Esq, FsherSrile AT
gusta county, Va. a.;
My DEAR SIR Your favor OF
srd inst. duly received. Your ques-
tons as to the proper method Tor
building a silo, are interesting, and
open up the question very thor
oughly. can only answer them
by my own experience, which was
experimental on my part but which
has fully come up to my best hopes.
You ask; ais it best to build in
the ground or on tOpF" l answer !;
All books | have read on the sub
iect say build in or at least partly
in the ground, using tight walls or
cement, either concrete or stone or
brick some have used plank lin
ing. l soon found the whole secret
was an air tight receptacle for the
cut corn, and / therefore began to
think the digging and gong under
ground was a useless expense. 1
took the rear end of MY carriage
house, laid down stills, and put on a
floor OF inch pine plank simply
matched, not even tongued and
groOved. L then boarded up the
sides in like manner. When this
was done went over it again put
ting down a second floor and sec
ond set of sides of same kind OF
plank, and put on in the same way
only l made each plank break or
cover a Joint of a plank below 1t
thus:
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s22.OO

making a total cost, packed away,
of 20 tons of cut corn from one
acre. OF course you can add ferti-
lizer, interest on lands, &C., as you
like.
l regard eDsilage as a perfect
food, taking the place of hay. Of
course you must add bran or meal
if you want good results. So you
do with hay, if you are good
farmer.
Horses, cows, pigs and sheep all
eat it after a few days at least; the
more they eat the better they like
it. / give sometimes wisp of hay
to change food and help the appe-
tite. Salt your cattle once a week
at least.
At 80 lbs. to the foot each ton
Will require 40 cubic feet of space
and will feed a COW 40 days. If
this costs $1.O0, then each days
ration will cost just p cents. Add
to this } gallon of bran, say, 3
cents more, and it will amount to y
cents daily, or 1926 per month
per COW. Now, it will not require
more than half the amount of bran
l give above; therefore . cents
daily IS a good price, or $3.50 per
month, S1S yearly.
will take pleasure in showing
any Of your readers who may APP
ply, the plan and workings of my
silo.
Yours truly,
WIN. JOLLIPFE.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10

A Chicago man paid $3.50 a few
days ago for a new and improved
incubator. He placed therein $25
worth of high.priced eggs and
hired a boy to attend it at a further
expense of S25. The time having
fully expired, he went to inspect
the incubator and see how many of
the eggs had Matched. The only
living thing be found was a large
bIuebottle fiy, which he caught and
put in bottle. He exhibits this
insect to inquiring friends as the
only 5000 fly in the United States.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10

A little boy near Charlotte, n. c.,
found a nest Of young rabbits and
carried them into the house. There
a cat which had lost her kittens the
day before found them and adopted
them. She nursed and nurt0red
the young rabbits with as much
care as she had bestowed upon her
own kittens, and they seemed en-
tireIy at ease under the care of the
foster mother. Unfortunately an
other cat aboutrhe hopse found the
young rabbits andxilled them.
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10

There ia nothing better than cut
straw to clean the legs of chickens.
Cover the floor to depth of six
inches with clean, dry straw that
has been run through a cutting
box. throw a few oats and some
wheat among it, and let in the
poultry. The amount of scratch.
ing they will do cleans the legs
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and does them good in all particu-
lars.
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MISSING A POINT.

"You men are so lucky" fair maiden
said,
Discussing the question of dress;
"You're ne'er bothered with petticoats,
corsets or shawls,
Which TO US are a source Of distress"
ayes, know" said the youth, Tho wait
ing had been,
An argument ready to seize
"What you've said is all true, yet there's
one point you miss
Your pants never bag at the knees"
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10

An Indiana farmer, who told his
boys to burn eyer humble bees
nest they found on the farm, and
who was complaining at the failure
of lis clover seed crop, was surprls'
ed when Maurice Thompson, the
naturalist, said, "That is why your
clover seed fails you. Bundle bees
make your clover seed" 1t is a
fact that a strong nest Of humble
bees in big clover field is worth
800 to the owner, for these insects
are the chief agents in fertilizing
the blossoms, thereby insuring a
heavy crop of seed. In Australia
there we're no bumble bees of our
kind, and they could not raise clio
yer seed there until they imported
some.
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10

The turkey is one of the best
paving fowls the farmer can keep
when the surroundings are favor
able. Throughout the entire year
turkeys are salable in lesser guam
titles, for the city hotels aud res.
taurants chiefly, and there is no
common poultry, perhaps, that
will average the yesrthrough bet.
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-10
MAJOR JOILIFFE ON ENSIIA6E.

of BotetOurt, on ensilage was ex'
tensvely copied by the press in
Virginia and other States. He
was recently called upon by the
editor of the FiacdStle Herald to
write again on the subject. He
promptly responded, and his letter
to that paper is copied in full for
the information of the readers of
the HERALD, who are interested
in such matters -
BUCHANAN, VA, Jan. 49, 81.
Editor Herald Dear Sir -
Your letter OF recent date, asking
me to give you for the readers OF
the Herald my experience with
ensilage, was duly received ; and l
send you herewith some notes,
hastily written, which ! hope may
be of some service to you:
Sow your corn in rows feet
apart in the row and cultivate
Just as you would any other corn
crop. Cut when corn is in early
silk. and before any portion of the
plant begins to dry OF burn; haul
up as fast as cut, so it will not
wilt; the fresher it is kept the bet
ter it will be; run it right through
the fodder cutter thus before IT
willis, as it will cut easier and
cleaner and be far better. Pack
away in even layers as fast as cut
and tramp it well down in the sllo
OF pit. The tighterit is packed the
better it will keep and nicer it will
be. You can be just as long as
you please in filing, provided you
put on o fresh layer of corn daily,
for it takes green corn As hours to
spoil, and of course each fresh
LAYER protects that below, by cover
ing it from the air. The great
secret is to keep it from exposure
to the air, not only when putting
it away, but afterwards as well.-
Planted and cultivated as above,
on good land with proper lnanures,
90 tons can be raised to each acre,
if large varieties of corn are used.
When all packed away, put on a
layer OF, say, one foot of straw,
then two layers of plank, closing
all Joints close, then on top, evenly
distributed, say from two to three
tons of stone or other weights
Pack Just as you would pack curds
for making a cheese; that is, SO
the top can keep sinking as it com.
presses and vet keep air tight. En-.
silage, properly packed, will weigh
from 80 to 60 pounds to the cubic
feet; and / think one cubic foot is
a ration for a COW for one day. So
if you have a silo that will hold,
say 1900 cubic feet after compress.
ed, you have the feed for 10 COWS
for 100 days.
Now when you open your silo,
be sure to fix it so air cannot get
to it. Take out daily just what
you need for daily feed, so as not
to open but once a day. 1t will
keep fresh SO hours; therefore al.
ways take off the exposed edges,
so as daily to keep a fresh surface
exposed. Here is the whole secret
of its keeping fresh and nice just
as long as you need it.
Experiments show it willdo this
feed a steer weighing 1000 pounds,
say, 40 lbs. of ensilage daily, Civ
ing no other food keep this up for
80 days, weigh your steer, and you
will find he has neither lost or
gained; hence good sweet ensilage
will Just keep up all the functions
of life and keep the fat ; if you add
bran or meal, you lay on fat or get
more milk, as your need and liber-
atty dictate. The following figures
will be found interesting:
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60 Two I

A girl was once kissed by her beau,
when she hastily told him to go;
He asked where he should 90,
She said "Yoa'fe stupid, and 50.
why; 90 on with the kissing, ycr Z ,w.p
-GoodaIIs 6n.
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Such a building will last for at
least ten years and will hold after
compressed 5000 cubic feet of en-
Stage, which will feed 20 head of
cattle $50 days; or put into tons it
will bold $50 toas Of good, sweet
eDsilage. Make your door in one
end, or if you have it divided into
rooms, then a door In the end of
each : =. Have the door begin
eer re door and run Up to
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